NetworkManager in Portage?

No, not quite yet – although I am sure some of you got your hopes up.  Currently, I need to patch the dhclient scripts for all the distrobutions that support dbus (whether they run dhcdbd or not is another story)

 That means, according to the ls of the dhcp-3.0.3/dhclient/scripts directory

bsdos  freebsd  linux  netbsd  nextstep  openbsd  solaris 

The problem is, I am not sure which of those support dbus, aside from linux of course, so, I am asking for help.  If you run anything other than linux, drop me a comment, and let me know, and I will shoot off a small snippet for you to put into the dhclient-script file, and basically, just want you to go about your business and make sure that the snippet doesn't affect your dhclient-script usage at all.

Thanks for any help! 

OMG ICONS!!!

Ok, so the last post here about icons from IconBuffet was really helpful, and I am almost complete. This is my list thus far. (Many thanks to all whom have sent me icons)

Dresden Tournament (3 Deliveries available)
Durango Research (3 Deliveries available)
Farewell Snow (5 Deliveries available)
Helsinki Hi-Fi (5 Deliveries available)
Mallow Buzz 1 (4 Deliveries available)
Mallow Buzz 2 (4 Deliveries available)
Manhattan Metroplex (5 Deliveries available)

Marseilles Cafe (5 Deliveries available)
Modena Simbolo (4 Deliveries available)
Oslo Atmosphere (5 Deliveries available)
Oslo Easter (5 Deliveries available)
Oslo Finance (5 Deliveries available)
Shanghai Tech (3 Deliveries available)
Shanghai Smilies (5 Deliveries available)
Shanghai Tech Vector (5 Deliveries available)
Taipei Night Market (4 Deliveries available)
Tower Grove Melee (2 Deliveries available)
Tower Grove Promenade (4 Deliveries available)
Tower Grove Wedding (4 Deliveries available)

Still need any others

Icon Buffet!

Ok, so a few months ago, I heard about Icon Buffet through an RSS feed, and signed up.  Every month there is a free delivery – a set of icons that you can use for whatever you want.  Which is very cool.  They send different sets to different people, and you can send them to others as well.  You can sign up http://www.iconbuffet.com/delivery and I don't recall exactly when they send out the new sets, but, what I am looking for, is help in getting the sets that I don't have.  I don't use my gentoo email address for there, so if you would like to do transfers, you will have to either leave a comment here for me to email you, or email me steev at gentoo dot org, and I will tell you where to send them.  The following are the sets that I have:

Dresden Tournament

Durango Research

Mallow Buzz 2

Shanghai Tech

Tower Grove Melee

If you would like any of these, please let me know.  I will be more than willing to send  

Vidalinux, Gentopia, NetworkManager

I work on NetworkManager, and so I am subscribed to the NM mailing list.  A user sent a mail to the list saying that NetworkManager wasn't working for them, and digging in, it turns out that they are using Vidalinux, except that as far as I can tell, they aren't using Gentopia's overlay.  An interesting thought.  This Vidalinux has NetworkManager in their tree, which isn't necessarily bad, although I don't think that it is quite ready for Portage itself just yet.  I am not happy with the Gentoo backend, and am currently rewriting it, and I know that a lot of users will be put off because they can't set static information yet.  I am hoping for 1 more release before I put NetworkManager into the tree, and I am currently working on the patches to dhcp so that the support is there for dhcdbd.

 So, are there any Vidalinux users out there who read the Planet, or Universe (not sure which I am on) and know exactly how vlos is setup?  Or even if someone from vlos would contact me, so that the efforts in the Gentoo end of things are more unified and less re-inventing of the wheel.

Gentopia, NetworkManager, DHCP Timeouts

So, NetworkManager is one of the few packages remaining in Gentopia, and it requires a patch to dhcp, which Uberlord is looking into adding it to Portage, so that is a good thing.  On the down side though, something has recently started causing, whenever NetworkManager attempts to get a dhcp address, for it to take longer than 45 seconds to receive a dhcp response.  This of course, causes it to fail, and you then get stuck with an apipa address and no networking.  Still trying to hunt down the cause.  Will keep you posted.

Overlays

So, there has been much talk of overlays on the gentoo-dev mailing list.  I have had an overlay that I use between 2 different laptops, and I have always “synced” them using

rsync –rsh=”ssh” -avzP –delete . laptopname:/usr/local/portage/

Now, it hasn’t been easy, as there were times where I would have ebuilds that I wanted to keep in one, but I didn’t have in the other, and so on and so forth, so I have decided to try out cogito, as a versioned control system for them, and while creating the repository was easy, and doing an initial import of it on the other laptop was easy, I am not sure what I am doing wrong now.  I had a directory with an ebuild where the software was no longer available (brightside) so I did a cg-rm ebuild, cg-rm -r brightside, and then did a cg-commit, and cg-log shows that its committed, and when I goto the other machine, and cg-update, it shows that it should be branched exactly the same, but for some reason, it isn’t.  I am still showing the files in there.  I am continuing my search, but, if anyone knows what I am doing wrong, let me know!

It’s been quite a while

Okay, I will admit it, I am horrible at blogging.  And posting, and whatever else.  Lots of things going on in my personal life, and I am still actually marked as away on Gentoo, but I am still doing things here and there when I get the free time.  There was a new NetworkManager release, which is in Gentopia, this also removed the gentooify patches that we used to apply.  Some people ran into problems with this, but overall it has been a fairly smooth transition.

On my TODO list, thinkpad (someone has already posted patches to bugzilla, tested locally, just need to commit), rtl8180 doesn’t work with the 2.6.16 kernel, and I can’t get orinoco emerged either.  Those will be the most pressing, specially since tomorrow, my buddy is letting me borrow his wireless access point.

NetworkManager-vpnc!

OK, so it took me a little while to figure out – the vpnc part of NetworkManager, while being IN NM’s cvs, is not distributed as part of NetworkManager. So, I decided to figure out what gives with it – and I have a preliminary tarball for it, as well as an ebuild in Gentopia.  I don’t have an actual VPN to connect to however, so…

 Need someone out there who can, to test it out for me, and lemme know how it goes…

The world of EVDO

I played with an EV-DO card today – the Novatel Merlin s620 and wow – it is actually fast – I mean, we did streaming video – not bad at all – I wanted to push the envelope, but at the time in the training class, we actually had to wait on some people to finish with the laptop’s that we had available to us, so I didn’t get to see anything like a VOIP call or anything like that.  I started searching on the net because of it – I mean, I had been interested before, but I noticed a couple of things – first, the AirPrime cards are supported by the kernel (at least, I *think* they are – I saw a driver for them) – and apparently, the s620 is supported by the basic usbserial driver, as the card itself is a USB modem, and the card has a Lucent OHCI usb chipset on it.  Must do more research – wish I had a card myself.  Sprint is offering a deal on them though – 250 dollars is what they cost without a plan or anything – but you can get it for free basically – and you have 2 plans to choose from, IF you have voice service, you can get unlimited data usage for 59.99 a month, or if you don’t want a voice plan, you pay 79.99 a month.

 

Now if I could just get someone to hook me up with some money so I could buy one to play with. 

run dbus run…

So, dbus by default puts the system socket in /var/run/dbus/  and for some reason, we have been putting it into /var/lib/run/dbus/  or /var/lib/dbus/ one of those two, either way, joem pointed it out to me, because avahi and skype were both not working properly because of it.  I went ahead and committed the fix, I also bumped up to dbus .50 because it has been out for a while, some people were asking for it, and though I have been running it locally since a few days after it was released, I never put it into Portage (mainly because I am still new and don’t want to get in trouble/break anyone’s systems )